The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 65
Their beds were so comfortable, they could hardly make up their minds to get up, their clothes were so lovely they could scarcely bring themselves to take them off; their dinners were so good that they found it very difficult to leave off eating.
Who acts: beds, burner, clothes, dinners, dinner · What happens: be, make up, get up, bring, take off, find · To what, where: minds, burner, dinner
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beds, burner, clothes, dinners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 beds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comfortable | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comfortable | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 comfortable | advmod |
| 5 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 comfortable | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 make | compound:prt |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 minds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 get | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lovely | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 lovely | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lovely | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 lovely | advmod |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 25 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lovely | parataxis |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bring | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 take | compound:prt |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 good | punct |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dinners | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 good | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 good | cop |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 good | advmod |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 comfortable | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 found | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | nsubj |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 good | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | obj |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 difficult | advmod |
| 43 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 found | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 leave | mark |
| 45 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 difficult | xcomp |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 leave | compound:prt |
| 47 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 leave | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | burner's beds | comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | could | burner | burner's minds | hardly property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 3 | get up | to-infinitive | burner not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | burner's clothes | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | could | burner | burner | scarcely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 6 | take off | to-infinitive | burner not said here | burner | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | burner's dinners | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | find | past | burner | dinner | difficult property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 9 | leave off | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | eat | gerund | dinner not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | mind | burner | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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